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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:16:40 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>, Sandeep Kohli <fuhrer6mill@yahoo.com>, fbsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: accessing ide
Message-ID:  <20010328161640.H5524@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3AC1E257.F8E2414C@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:08:40AM -0800
References:  <3AC1D2B2.F3244CA2@yahoo.com> <20010328113625.C5524@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010328104240.B443@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> <3AC1E257.F8E2414C@elischer.org>

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:08:40AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Ceri Storey wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:36:25AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > [...]
> > > And btw, another part of your problem could be that FreeBSD
> > > has used ad, not wd, for ATAPI devices access for some time;
> > > unless you're running < 4.0 (or hmm, somebody correct me: when
> > > did the wd -> ad transition take place?), try opening /dev/ad0
> > > or /dev/ad0c.
> > >
> > > Both 'head -c 512 /dev/ad0 | hd' and 'head -c 512 /dev/ad0c | hd'
> > > work for me, on 4.2-stable (4.3-RC from March 25th).
> > 
> > but these two command lines give me different results, eg:
> > cds220# head -c 32 /dev/ad0c | hd
> > 00000000  eb 1b 90 90 16 1f 66 6a  00 51 50 06 53 31 c0 88  |......fj.QP.S1..|
> > 00000010  f0 50 6a 10 89 e5 e8 c7  00 8d 66 10 cb fc 31 c9  |.Pj.......f...1.|
> > 00000020
> > cds220# head -c 32 /dev/ad0 | hd
> > 00000000  fc 31 c0 8e c0 8e d8 8e  d0 bc 00 7c bd 00 0a 89  |.1.........|....|
> > 00000010  ef b9 08 00 f3 ab fe 45  f2 52 bb 00 06 89 ee b8  |.......E.R......|
> > 
> > so they are not equivalent?
> 
> yes they are not equivalent..
> 
> ad0 is the entire physical drive
> ad0c is the same as ad0s1 (or whatever slice is your first BSD slice).
> Do NOT use ad0c. it is magicly the same as ad0s1 but the magic is scheduled to
> dissappear 
> some time in the next 10 years.

(open mouth; take foot out; shoot foot)

Oops.  Forget I said anything then.  Sorry for the confusion.

G'luck,
Peter

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I am the thought you are now thinking.

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